Haynes: Romney's run shifts religious debates

11:11 PM,
Nov. 19, 2012

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Buried in the mountain of demographic data preoccupying political pundits this week is one historic statistic that may have far-reaching consequences for religious freedom in America:

Seventy-nine percent of white Protestant evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - popularly known as the Mormon Church.

After a bitter Republican primary season during which many evangelical leaders supported the "anybody- but-Romney" effort, high-profile conservative Christian ministers lined up behind Romney for the general ...